Art related to the Environment started with Land Art, Systems thinking, Art Povera. I feel that nowadays its taking up a momentum again, because of its contemporary relevance. Historically, that's how art movements emerge, as a response to the world we live in and as a response to other art movements too. Ecological Art hasn't quite yet been overtly coined, authors tend to use designations like "art and ecology" or "environmental activist art", and much of the art world is so diverse that it's not easy to pin which ones are trends and which ones are movements. I think there is a big difference between trend and movement, trend being superficial and easily replaceable, and more of an illustrative convenience of the times we live in, definitely short-life span. A movement stems from a common ground of principles and erects a whole philosophy, sometimes, even processes unify the movement's art practice. If I was to explain how Ecological Art is different from Environmental art of the past, I would focus on explaining how it borrowed principles from all three afore mentioned movements, but placing them in the complexities of today's world. This includes colonialism, activism, corporate networking/economic system, the scientific community (climate change and the anthropocene at the center, but ranging from genetics to biomimicry for example), meta-romanticism of nature, use of advanced technology, overpopulation, natural disasters, energy industry. 

In addition to content, there are also a variety of approaches, which we can categorise in their outcomes' focus, as if it were a genre: utopia (or romantic/fascination), use of natural materials, research, documentary, conservation, use of natural systems and technology, criticism, activism, hyperbole, dystopia. This gauge is a selection of where does my practice sit in the wider context of Ecological art.